March 17, 2010

Some days back I purchased HTC Hero for myself. Before buying that I have gone through lot of reviews, forums, and Googled a lot on the internet about issues with connectivity etc.Even though I have gone through tens of pages saying Wi-Fi does not work, Bluetooth does not work and some others also, however since I wanted to change my phone badly, I purchased one for me.

Following is the list of features that worked and did not worked for me:

Wi-Fi: Absolutely yes, Checked (WPA-2,PAEP and WEP)

Bluetooth Headset: Yes

Bluetooth File transfer: Nope (Android 1.5 does not support file transfer over blue tooth) - That was sad, but hopefully Hero will get a Android 2.1 upgrade.

Android Market:To my surprise, No. I reported this issue to HTC Support and they replied me that "Android market will work only when you have GPRS on the phone, it does not work with the WI-FI." But on GPRS it does not work because the connection speed is really slow over my network. Hopefully it will work well on 3G, but I have not tested it yet.Yes it works fine over Wi-Fi.

Browser: Yes/No - Same case as that of the market, by default it uses cell network to connect so does not work on Wi-Fi. I tried it using GPRS and it worked really well. Browser is also working fine.

March 02, 2010

UPDATE: I have finished creating the mappings and I have also created a easy to install package and a tutorial to go with it. Please visit Korg nanoKontrol mappings for MixMeister Studio page to access both the tutorial and the uploaded package.

Since the day I got myself nanoKontrol and nanoKey, I have been trying my hands on with them on various software. From the Korg site, I got the mappings for almost all music softwares like Ableton Live, Fruity Loops, Traktor Pro etc. but I was not able to find midi mappings for MixMeister. I have been through various forms and Googled it a lot but did not find the mappings. It was then that I decided to create my own mappings for MixMeister.

I have started working on this since January, but never actually got time to document it or test it fully. Finally Last week I got some free time and I have completed the mappings. Here is the Mapping Chart for Korg nanoKontrol with MixMeister Studio(v 7.3.2).

Right now I do not have any idea if someone would really want to use the nanoKontrol with MixMeister. But if you are really interested in getting the nanoKontrol template, midi mappings file plus a tutorial on how to actually use these mappings with MixMister, please leave a comment and I will then upload the tutorial and the files.